Class 8224 Unit Test on Reconstruction

Which historic period was marked by the military occupation of a portion of the United States, attempts to remove the President from office, and major constitutional revisions?

• Reconstruction
• Roaring Twenties
• Depression and New Deal
• Vietnam War Era

During Reconstruction, what was a belief of the Radical Republicans?

• The former Confederate States should be brought back into the Union as quickly as possible.
• Reconstruction should be used to force political and social reform in the Southern States.
• The North and South should take equal responsibility for causing the Civil War.
• The freedmen should be denied equal civil rights.

In the Reconstruction period, Presidential Reconstruction differed from the plans of Radical Republicans in that

• the presidential plan included a requirement that states ratify the 14th amendment
• presidential reconstruction required 90% of a state to promise loyalty to the Union
• the goal of presidential reconstruction was to integrate the South back into the U.S. as quickly as possible.
• the presidential plan opposed the 13th Amendment.

Following Reconstruction, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of

• the 14th and 15th amendments
• the Freedmen’s Bureau
• Black Codes
• tenant farming and sharecropping

Base your answers to the question on this discussion between speakers and on your knowledge of social studies. The constitutional amendments under discussion are the

• first and second
• fifth and tenth
• fourteenth and fifteenth
• twenty-first and twenty-second

Base your answers to the question on this discussion between speakers and on your knowledge of social studies. Speaker C assumed that the Republican Party could count on the votes of the

• former slaves
• Western farmers
• urban factory workers
• former Confederate soldiers

The following statement is part of the

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott decision
• 13th amendment to the Constitution

Constitutional amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to

• provide legal and political rights for African Americans
• end property and religious qualifications for voting
• correct problems with the electoral college system
• limit the number of terms of the president

Following the Civil War, many Southern states enacted Black Codes to

• provide free farmland for African Americans
• guarantee equal civil rights for African Americans
• restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons
• support the creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau

Base your answers on the section of the law quoted below and on your knowledge of social studies. This law was most likely passed during the

• pre-Revolutionary War period
• Reconstruction Era
• Great Depression
• civil rights movement of the 1960's